26 MEMOIR OF LINNAEUS. 



self, or under his superintendence, and published as an 

 appendix to the work above mentioned. 



The diary is a curious and interesting document, 

 and owes its preservation to Dr Maton ; it was con- 

 veyed in the year 1779* with a variety of manuscripts, 

 to be printed in England, by M. Fredenheim, son of 

 Dr Mennander, Archbishop of Upsala, to Robert Gor- 

 don, Esq. merchant at Cadiz. In consequence of Mr 

 Gordon's death, the publication of them was not 

 accomplished, and they were disposed of to Dr Maton, 

 who had the diary translated and printed in his edition 

 of Dr Pulteney's Biography of Linnaeus. The manu- 

 script was written in a folio book containing about 

 eighty pages, entitled " Vita Caroli Linnsei." The 

 greater part of it is in the handwriting of his various 

 pupils, of whom that of Dr Lindwall is most conspi- 

 cuous, and it often runs from the first to third person, 

 as if the different writers had not attended to what had 

 been set down by their predecessor. 



From this diary we learn that Nils Linnaeus, the 

 father of the naturalist, born in 1674, was the son of 

 a peasant named Ingemar Bengtsson, in Smaland, and 

 married Ingrid Ingemarsdotter, sister of Sven Tilian- 

 der,* pastor of Pietteryd. The latter took Nils Lin- 

 neeus into his house, educated him along with his own 



* Sven Tiliander, and the ancestors of the naturalist, took their 

 surnames of Lindelius, Tiliander, and Linnaeus, from a large linden 

 or lime-tree, standing on the farm where he was born. This ori- 

 gin of surnames, taken from natural objects, is not uncommon ia 

 b\\ eden. 



